The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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ProductBoard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Written by Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant and Author, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Why was Instagram’s product so successful? I want to share some important product strategy tools that.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Creating a solid product strategy is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. But how can you test a strategy? Photo by Ron Lach from Pexels As I said in the first post of this series , product strategy starts with getting very detailed about what you are trying to do and why it would work.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Influence without authority has always been the foundation of product management. As product leaders, this is even more important. Many product leaders who were formerly product managers, or even product group leaders in large organizations, suffer from the same issue. If only I knew it back then.

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ProductBoard

JUNE 22, 2020

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need. Even before COVID-19, the writing was on the wall for product managers.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As a product manager, understanding these jobs and workflows is crucial. The Solutions Value Chain: It’s Not Just For Product Management The Solutions Value Chain is a powerful framework, and it’s not limited to just product management. Getting Tactical: What Jobs and Workflows Need to Change?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. Unlike the last 3 sessions, the audience in the other training program mostly consisted of freelancers and people who aspire to become product managers. Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Mistake #2: Creating Objectives That Are Efforts and Not Outcomes Now that we have established that product goals are about the product and not about product management, what should these goals be? My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I would argue that even if you are beyond that spot, and as a product leader you do much more than UX, you and the company might still not realize what is your primary responsibility as a product leader. Why This Happens Product management is a unique role in so many ways. and crosses all domains. But Do You?

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. We are here to help you.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. would ask why it is important to continue refining even the finest details.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The Trade-Offs You Already Made As a product manager, you make trade-offs all the time, not only in the goals you set (as mentioned in the example above). Who knows, if you do it well enough you might even be able to go on vacation and they will manage without you ??

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

I’m sure you know this quote and see it a lot in product management. But the difference between theory and practice isn’t limited to product management theory  — mostly processes and methodologies. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

Note: The examples that I will give here are related to product strategy but the same principles can be applied to many other areas — either strategic or simply tough or complex decisions that you need to make where there is no perfect answer (for example, decisions on team structure, hiring, priorities, go/no-go, or anything else).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market That’s awesome and very important.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors. But when you define your product strategy, and your differentiation from the competition, it is important to understand what your real competition is.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on February 23, 2021.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. What’s Product Management’s Role in Digital Transformation?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Make It Easy for Them to Help You In the CPO Bootcamp , the participants submit every week a piece of their product strategy for feedback. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Are you ready to make this your new year’s resolution? Happy new year!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

In my case, the MBA greatly contributed to the shift I made into product management. I specifically remember that I consulted with another marketing teacher there about what should my next career steps be, and he suggested “That I should try this thing called product management”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

When you consider the ideal customer profile, you need to get yourself into your customers’ world and deeply understand what they need to go through before they are ready to buy your product. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Make yourself an expert in this area as well.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. What was missing in my answers was solid product thinking.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 26, 2022.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2020

When a company is small, the product manager (by whatever title) is responsible for activities across the entire product life cycle—from ideation to market delivery and sales support. In these organizations, the product role is that of a generalist. . As the product team expands, we see specialized roles emerge.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. You have what it takes to do it well.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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